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burglarious
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adj 1: involving or resembling burglary; "burglarious tools"
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calcareous
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adj 1: composed of or containing or resembling calcium carbonate
or calcite or chalk [syn: calcareous, chalky]
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vainglorious
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adj 1: feeling self-importance; "too big for his britches"; "had
a swelled head"; "he was swelled with pride" [syn: big,
swelled, vainglorious]
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various
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adj 1: of many different kinds purposefully arranged but lacking
any uniformity; "assorted sizes"; "his disguises are many
and various"; "various experiments have failed to
disprove the theory"; "cited various reasons for his
behavior" [syn: assorted, various]
2: considered individually; "the respective club members";
"specialists in their several fields"; "the various reports
all agreed" [syn: respective(a), several(a),
various(a)]
3: distinctly dissimilar or unlike; "celebrities as diverse as
Bob Hope and Bob Dylan"; "animals as various as the jaguar
and the cavy and the sloth" [syn: diverse, various]
4: having great diversity or variety; "his various achievements
are impressive"; "his vast and versatile erudition" [syn:
versatile, various]
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vicarious
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adj 1: experienced at secondhand; "read about mountain climbing
and felt vicarious excitement"
2: occurring in an abnormal part of the body instead of the
usual site involved in that function; "vicarious
menstruation"
3: suffered or done by one person as a substitute for another;
"vicarious atonement"
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victorious
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adj 1: having won; "the victorious entry"; "the winning team"
[syn: victorious, winning]
2: experiencing triumph [syn: triumphant, victorious]
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vitreous
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adj 1: of or relating to or constituting the vitreous humor of
the eye; "the vitreous chamber"
2: relating to or resembling or derived from or containing
glass; "vitreous rocks"; "vitreous silica"
3: (of ceramics) having the surface made shiny and nonporous by
fusing a vitreous solution to it; "glazed pottery"; "glassy
porcelain"; "hard vitreous china used for plumbing fixtures"
[syn: glassy, vitreous, vitrified]
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aquarius
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n 1: (astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in
Aquarius [syn: Aquarius, Water Bearer]
2: a zodiacal constellation in the southern hemisphere; between
Capricornus and Pisces
3: the eleventh sign of the zodiac; the sun is in this sign from
about January 20 to February 18 [syn: Aquarius, Aquarius
the Water Bearer, Water Bearer]
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stradivarius
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n 1: Italian violin maker who developed the modern violin and
created violins of unequaled tonal quality (1644?-1737)
[syn: Stradivari, Antonio Stradivari, Stradivarius,
Antonius Stradivarius]
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nereus
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n 1: (Greek mythology) a sea god son of Pontus and Gaea; lived
in the depths of the sea with his wife Doris and their
daughters the Nereids
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guarnerius
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n 1: Italian violin maker and grandson of Andrea Guarneri
(1687?-1745) [syn: Guarneri, Guarnieri, Guarnerius,
Guiseppe Guarneri]
2: founder of a family of Italian violin makers (1626?-1698)
[syn: Guarneri, Guarnieri, Guarnerius, Andrea
Guarneri]
3: a violin made by a member of the Guarneri family
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belisarius
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n 1: Byzantine general under Justinian I; he recovered former
Roman territories in northern Africa and fought against the
Persians
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tiberius
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n 1: son-in-law of Augustus who became a suspicious tyrannical
Emperor of Rome after a brilliant military career (42 BC to
AD 37) [syn: Tiberius, Tiberius Claudius Nero Caesar
Augustus]
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sirius
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n 1: the brightest star in the sky; in Canis Major [syn:
Sirius, Dog Star, Canicula, Sothis]
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sartorius
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n 1: a muscle in the thigh that helps to rotate the leg into the
sitting position assumed by a tailor; the longest muscle in
the human body [syn: sartorius, sartorius muscle,
musculus sartorius]
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demetrius
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n 1: son of Antigonus Cyclops and king of Macedonia; he and his
father were defeated at the battle of Ipsus (337-283 BC)
[syn: Demetrius, Demetrius I, Demetrius Poliorcetes]
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nestorius
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n 1: Syrian who was a Christian bishop and Patriarch of
Constantinople in the early fifth century; one of the major
heresies concerning the doctrine of the hypostasis of
Christ was named after him (died in 451)
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atreus
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n 1: (Greek mythology) the king of Mycenae and father of
Agamemnon and of Menelaus
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vagarious
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darius
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scarious
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marius
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malarious
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denarius
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senarius
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septenarius
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zacarias
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subereous
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tiberias
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subdelirious
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sulphureous
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makarios
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